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Mr.  chairman, 

I  Feel  a  peculiar  degree  of  pleasure  and 
satisfaction  in  offering  to  the  consideration  of  this 
respectable  meeting  of  the  Inhabitants  of  Teign- 
mouth  and  its  vicinity,  the  petition  which  I  now 
hold  in  my  hand,  because  in  doing  so,  I  am  con- 
sious  that  I  am  discharging  a  sacred  duty,  which  I 
owe  to  myself,  my  family,  my  country,  and  my 
God.  In  a  free  state,  and  under  a  mixed  govern- 
ment, such  as  that  of  Great  Britain  and  Iceland, 
whenever  any  important  measure  is  discussed  in 
the  Senate,  it  is  the  privilege  of  free-born  Britons 
to  present  petitions  either  for  or  against  the  mea- 
sure. To  prove  that  the  decisions  of  our  ^oiiators 
are  influenced  by  petitions,  I  need  only  appeal  to 
the  journals  of  both  Houses  of  Parliament  .;  I  dis- 
tinctly recollect,  when  a  bill  was  brought  into  Par- 
liament a  few  years  since  by  Lord  Sidmouth,  which 
in  a  very  slight  degree  affected  the  Dissenting  in- 


terest,  it  was  immediately  withdiawn  in  conse- 
quence of  the  numerous  petitions  which  were  pre- 
sented against  it.  But  why  need  1  appeal  to  the 
journals  of  the  two  Houses  of  Parliament,  when 
the  fact  is  sufiicientlv  of3vious  to  all  who  now  hear 

nie,    that   1  should  not  have  had  an  opportunity  of 

addressing  the  inhabitants  of  Teignmouth  and  its 
vicinity  a  second  time  upon  the  subject  of  Roman 
Catholic  Emancipation,  had  not  the  prayer  of  our 
last  Petition  been  attended  to  in  tlie  House  of 
Lords  ? 

I  congratulate  the  gentlemen  here  present, 
that  in  some  respects  we  are  met  this  day  under 
more  auspicious  circumstances,  than  when  we  last 
had  occasion  to  meet  for  a  similar  purpose.  At 
that  time  the  question  had  been  carried  in  the  pre- 
ceding Session  in  the  House  of  Commons,  and  it 
was  about  to  be  brought  forward  by  one  of  its 
warmest  advocates,  with  the  most  confident  hope 
of  ultimate  success,  A  new  parliament  has  since 
been  called,  the  question  has  now  been  negatived 
by  the  Commons,  and  *it  is  intended  to  be  brought 
forward  in  the  House  of  Lords  by  one  of  its  most 
decided  opponents,  for  the  express  purpose  of 
setting  it  at  rest  for  ever  Under  those  circum- 
stances every  petition  Avhich  is  presented  against 


*  The  author  was  n  t  avvcire  when  he  delivered  this  speech,  that  the 
Earl  of  iNanstield  had  withdrawn  his  notice  of  a  motion  on  the  Konmn 
t'athulic  Uuestiuu  on  the  Uh  of  June. 


h 


^ 


the  measure,  will  strengthen  the  hands  Of  the  noble 
Lord  who  intends  to  bring  it  forward,  by  convincing 
both  Houses  of  Parliament,  that  the  sentiments  of 
the  great  majority  of  the  people  are  decidedly 
against  it. 

Sir,  I  ara  persuaded  that  when  the  Emperor 
Theodosius  went  down  to  the  Roman  Senate, 
and  proposed  for  them  to  determine,  whether  the 
worship  of  Christ  or  of  the  Heathen  Deities  should 
in  future  be  the  established  religion  of  the  Roman 
Empire,  he  did  not  bring  forward  a  more  important' 
measure,  than  that  which  is  intended  to  be  brought 
forward  by  the  Earl  of  3IansJield,  on  the  seventh 
of  June. 

The  subject  of  Rornan  Catholic  Emancipation, 
is  viewed  in  a  very  diflerent  light  by  the  Pro- 
testants in  England,  and  the  Protestants  in  Ire- 
land. 

Through  the  kind  Providence  of  God,  the  Pro- 
testants in  both  countries  at  present  enjoy  the  free 
and  unrestrained  exercise  of  their  holy  religion. 
But  as  a  man  who  is  blessed  with  perfect  health, 
can  scarcely  persuade  himself  that  he  shall  ever 
lose  it:  so  the  Protestants  in  England  can  scarcely 
Jbelieve  it  possible  that  they  shall  ever  be  deprived 
of  the  privileges  which  they  now  enjoy.  But  not 
so  the  Protestants  in  Ireland.  They  see  tlie  dan- 
ger of  granting  Roman   Catholic  Emancipation, 


6 

because  its  baneful  effects  have  been  already  anti- 
cipated.    They  are  aware  that  the  Roman  Catho-4 
lies  think  themselves  so  sure  of  obtaining  eman- 
cipation, that  their  priests  have  made  out  a  list  of 
the  property  which  formerly  belonged  to  the   Ro-  • 
mish  Clmrch,  in  the  confident  hope  of  ultimately 
obtaining  possession  of  it.     They  are  aware  that  in 
every  Diocese  in  Ireland^    where  there  is  a  Pro- 
testant Bishop,  Dean  and  Chapter,  there  is  a  cor- 
respondent Roman  Catholic   Bishop,    Dean  and 
Chapter  :     and  whenever   any   member   of  these 
Cliapters  dies,  the  Roman  Catholics  surreptitiously 
obtain  admission  into  the  Cathedral,  and  actually 
install  a  priest  of  their  own  communion  into  the 
vacant  stall.     And  above  all  they  are  aware  of  the 
persecution,  and  in  one  instance  the  I  martrydom, 
to  which  the  recent  converts  to  the  Protestant  faith 
have  been  subject. 

Sir,  the  greatest  statesman  w  hich  Europe  or  the 
world  ever  produced,  was  aware  of  the  danger 
which  would  await  the  Protestant  Churcli,  if 
Emancipation  were  granted.  To  guard  against 
the  danger  he  proposed  certain  securities.  These 
securities  were  rejected  by  the  Roman  Catholics, 
although  the  Pope  had  granted  them  permission 
to  accede  to  them  :  and  they  acted  both  honestly 
and  honourably  in  doing  so.     But  I  am  astonished 


X    In    Ireland,  a  recent  convert  to  Protestantism  was  lately  hung   by 
his  own  relatives  who  were  Uouian  Caihclics. 


rv» 


at  the  blindness  of  Protestants  in  not  seeing-  the 
reason  why  these  securities  were  rejected.  I  am 
astonished  that  Protestants  did  not  perceive  that 
the  Roman  Catholics  threw  off  the  mask,  and  by 
their  actions  declared  "We  do  not  wish  to  deceive 
you  :  we  will  not  give  you  any  securities'for  the 
preservation  of  the  Protestant  Church,  because  we 
intend  to  effect  its  destruction,  as  soon  as  he 
power  is  put  into  our  hands."  Sir,  the  Prulu^J  i  is 
of  Ireland  are  aware  that  the  train  is  alreadv  it!  I 
to  blow  up  the  Protestant  Church,  and  th  i  iLe 
concession  of  Roman  Catholic  Emanripation  is 
looked  up  to  as  the  match  which  will  fire  the 
train.  This  is  strong  language  :  but  I  am  auth  >« 
rized  to  use  it  by  Dr.  Doijles  recent  letter  to  Lord 
Farnham,  in  which  he  says,  **I  think  the  Church 
Establishment  must  fall  sooner  or  later":  *'the 
concession  of  the  Catholic  Claims,  he  continues, 
"would  hasten  this  desirable  result." 


It  is  deeply  to  be  lamented  that  from  the  n  )v<  1 1  v. 
of  language,  the  same  Avord  is  frequently  used  in 
different  senses,  since  much  confusion  aad  11115- 
apprehension  h^vebeen  the  necessary  consequence. 
There  are  two  classes  of  subjects  in  his  Majestv  r. 
dominions,  the  emancipation  of  whom  has  occupied 
the  attention  of  the  legislature  for  more  than  a 
quarter  of  a  Century  :  I  mean  the  negroes  in  the 
West  Indies,  and  the  Roman  Catholics  in  England 
and  Ireland,     If  a  stranger  who  was  acquainted 


with  the  situation  of  the  negroes,  but  who  knew 
nothing  of  the  state  of  the  Roman  Catholics  were 
told,  that  the  Emancipation  of  the  RomanCatholics 
ivas  brought  forwaid  in  the  British  Parliament  w ith 
as  much  earnestness  and  zeal  as  the  emancipation 
of  the  negroes,  he  would  naturally  conclude,  that 
both  these  classes  of  his  Majesty's  sul)jects  were 
siznilarlv  circuna^itanccd,  and  that  the  Roman 
Catholics  in  England  and  Ireland  were  equally  as 
mach  slaves  as  the  negroes  in  the  West  Indies. 

But  how  great  would  be  his  surprize,  when  he 
found,  that  the  Roman  Catholics  enjoy  both  civil 
and  religious  liberty,  and  that  the  only  power 
w  liich  is  withheld  from  them  is  tliat  of  fdling  such 
offices,  as  would  enable  them  to  deprive  tjie  Pro- 
testants of  this  United  Kingdom  of  their  religious 
liberty. 

Perhaps  I  may  be  thought  to  have  used  too  broad 
an  expression  in  saying  tliat  the  Roman  Catholics 
enjoy  l>oth  civil  and  religious  liberty  ;  but  Dr. 
Moylan,  the  titular  Bisliop  of  Cork,  as  long  since 
as  1798,  acknowledged  this  important  fact.  He 
said  to  the  Roman  Catholics  of  his  Diocese. 
^'Certain  privileges  excepted,  you  enjoy  the  ad- 
vantages of  the  constitution,  you  have  the  comfort 
of  exercising  your  holy  religion  witliout  controul/' 

There  is  something  so  fascinating  in  the  idea  of 
liberty,  that  our  judgments  are  frequently  warped, 


9 

and  our  understandings  receive  a  false  bias  from  tlie 
contemplation  of  it.  The  abstract  proposition, 
that  every  class  of  his  Majesty's  subjects  ought  to 
enjoy  an  equal  degree  of  liberty,  is  too  self  evident 
to  require  a  single  argument  to  support  it.  But 
liberty,  in  the  fullest  sense  of  the  word,  can  only 
be  enjoyed  in  a  savage  state.  Civil  society  is  an 
infringement  of  liberty;  but  the  advantages  of  civil 
society,  more  than  counterbalance  the  loss  of  abso- 
lute liberty.  What  then  is  civil  ;  and  w  hat  is 
religious  liberty  ?  The  former  consists  in  the  pro- 
tection of  our  lives  and  property,  b)  the  laws  of 
the  Country  in  which  we  live ;  the  latter  in  the  free 
and  unrestrained  exercise  of  religion. 

Now,  Sir,  I  would  ask,  are  not  the  lives  and 
property  of  his  Majesty's  Roman  Catholic  subjects 
equally  as  much  protected  by  the  laws  of  this 
United  Kingdom,  as  the  lives  and  property  of  hi« 
Majesty's  Protestant  subjects?  And  do  not  the 
Roman  Catholics  in  Ireland  enjoy  a  privilege,  from 
which  the  Protestants  of  England  and  Scotland 
are  debarred,  I  mean  exemption  from  all  assessed 
taxes. 

As  to  religious  liberty,  I  am  not  aware  that  they 
do  not  enjoy  the  free  and  unrestrained  exercise  of 
their  religion,  except  in  two  instances  in  England, 
-and  one  in  Ireland.  In  England  the  Roman  Catho- 
lics are  .certainly  not  allowed  to  call  their  con- 
gregations together  by  the  tolling  of  a  bell :  but  in 


10 

Ireland  they  enjoy  this  privilege,  which  is  granted 
to  no  other  class  ot  iiissenters.  But  both  in  Eng- 
land and  Ireland  they  are  not  allowed  to  carry  a 
f  morsel  of  bread  through  the  streets  under  a  canopy, 
and  to  require  every  one  who  meets  it  to  fall  down 
and  worship  this  vegetable  God,  in  the  same  man- 
ner as  the  Egyptians  of  old  worshipped  leeks  and 
onions. 


Perhaps  it  may  be  thought  unwarrantable  in  me 
to  compare  the  idolatry  of  the  Roman  Catholics 
with  that  of  the  heathen  :  but  it  is  a  notorious  fact, 
that  the  same  image,  which  was  worshipped  at  Rome 
as  Jupiter,  is  now  by  the  addition  of  a  ruff  turned 
into  an  image  of  St.  Peter,  and  the  Pope  himself 
kneels  down  before  it  and  prays.  A  gentleman, 
on  whose  veracity  I  can  depend,  assured  me  that 
wlien  he  was  travelling  a  few  years  since  in  a 
Popish  country,  he  had  a  desire  to  ascend  a  high 
mountain,  for  the  purpose  of  enjoying  the  exten- 
sive prospect  which  it  commanded.  To  effect  this 
purpose  he  hired  some  mules  for  himself  and  his 
companions  :  but  unfortunately  the  mules  grew 
tired,  and  were  unable  to  proceed,  and  the  muli- 
teer,  instead  of  giving  them  some  corn,  as  a 
Protestant  would  have  done,  prayed  to  their  pa- 
tron saint,  St.  Nicholas,  to  assist  them.  IVow, 
Sir,  I  would  ask,  what  difference  can  be  discover- 


t  The  consecrated  wafer. 


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^d  i3etween  the  conduct  of  this  muliteer,  and  that 
of  the  man  who  prayed  to  Hercules  for  assistance, 
when  his  cart  was  stuck  fast  in  a  ditch?  Both 
Hercules  and  St.  Nicholas  were  dead  men,  and 
incapable  of  hearing  or  answering  prayers. 

The  Roman  Catholics  attempt  to  vindicate  their 
worship  of  ^this  little  ivory  God,  w  lich  1  h<M  m 
my  hand,  by  saying  that  they  do  not  mean  to 
worship  the  image  itself,  but  only  the  Divine 
Being  which  it  represents.  Why,  Sir,  this  is  the 
Tery  same  apology  which  the  heathens  ofiejed 
for  their  worship  of  idols.  But  what  excuse  can 
they  make  for  worshipping  saints  and  angels,  as  if 
the  creature  were  equally  entitled  to  divine  wor- 
ship with  the  Creator?  Sir,  the  Roman  Catholics 
exceed  the  heathen  in  idolatry:  for  tliey  not  only 
worship  men  when  they  are  dead,  but  they  w  or- 
ship  a  man  when  he  is  alive,  1  mean  the  Pope. 

It  may  not  be  generally  known,  that  at  the 
inauguration  of  every  newly  elected  Pope,  his 
chair  is  placed  upon  the  high  altar  in  St.  Peter's 
i  .Church  at  Rome,  where,  in  exact  fuUHment  of  the 
prediction,  and  in  complete  accordance  with  the 
description    of  Antichrist   given    by   St.    Paul,|| 

*4ie,  as  God,   sitteth  in  the  temple  of  God,  shew- 
ing  himself  that    he   is   God."      And   then  the 


§  A  Crucifix. 


li  2  Thess.  2.  v.  4. 


12 


Cardinals  fall  down  and  worship  him,  which  they 
call  the  act  of  adoration. 

But  this  is  not  the  only  occasion  on  which  the 
Pope  receives  the  adoration  of  his  subjects.  For 
when  the  ceremony  of  blessingall  the  nations  upon 
earth  takes  place,  all  the  nobility,  the  military, 
and  the  people  of  Rome,  are  assembled  in  the  area 
in  front  of  the  Church  of  St.  Peter's.  On  the 
tolling  of  a  bell,  the  Pope  comes  out  from  the  up- 
per  part  of  the  Cliurch  on  a  self-moving  throne, 
with  incense  fuming  around  liim,  in  imitation  of 
the  Almighty  on  Mount  Sinai.  Immediately  on 
his  appearance,  the  assembled  multitude  falj 
prostrate  on  the  ground,  while  he  pronounces  the 
blessing. 


Sir,  if  we  look  at  the  efforts  which  are  makinsr 
on  the  one  hand  to  effect  Roman  Catholic  Eman- 
cipation, and  at  the  efforts  which  are  making  on 
the  other  hand  to  prevent  it,  in  a  relief  loits  point 
of  view,  it  is  nothing  else  but  a  struggle  between 
Christ  and  Antichrist.  If  we  contemplate  them  in 
a  political  point  of  view,  it  is  in  reality  a  struggle 
(and  I  am  surprised  that  the  idea  has  never  been 
suggested  in  Parliament,)  it  is  a  struggle  between 
our  Protestant  King,  and  the  lineal  heir  to  the 
throne  ofGreat  Britain  and  Ireland, who  is  aRoman 
Catholic.  I  am  surprised  that  the  question  has 
never  been  asked  either  in  the  House  of  Lords,  or 
in  thellou^e  of  Commons,  whether  it  be  possible 


13 

in  the  nature  of  things,  if  Roman  Catholic 
Commoners  are  admitted  into  the  House  of  Com- 
mons, and  Roman  Catholic  Peers  into  the  House 
of  Lords,  *they  wid  be  contented  to  suffer  tl  e 
lineal  heir  to  be  excluded  from  the  throne  because 
he  is  a  Roman  Catholic  ? 


I  have  hitherto  abstained  from  alluding  to  the 
change  which  has  lately  taken  place  in  the  Cabinet, 
because  I  wish  to  prove  the  necessity  of  petitioning" 
against  Roman  Catholic  Emancipation  not  from 
that  change,  but  from  the  duty  by  which  all  Pro- 
testants are  bound  to  oppose  the  growth  of  Popish 
superstition  and  idolatry.  I  cannot  however  con- 
clude this  address  without  making  a  few  remarks 


*  It  seems  to  have  been  entirely  forsrottcn  by  politicians  both  in,  and 
out  of  Parliament,  that,  *'The  act   of  succession   gave  umbrage  to   all  the 
Popish  Princes   who  were  more   nearly  alUed  to  the  Crown  than  this  Lady, 
(the  Princess  Sophia  Duchess  Dowager  of  Hanover,)   whom  the  Parliament 
liad  preferred  to  all  others  :  ihat.  The  Duchess  of  Savoy,  grand-daughter  to 
Kiiig  Charles  I.  by  her  mother,  ordered  her  Ambassador,  Count  Mafiei,  to 
make  a  protestation  to  the   Parliament  of  England,  in  her  name,  against'all 
resohitions  and  decisions  contrary  to  her  title,  as  sole  daughter  to  the  Princess 
Henrietta,  next  in  succession  to  the  Crown  of  England,  after  Ring  WiUiam 
?ind  thQ    Prinrpss  Anne  of  JOenmark:"— that,   "Two   copies   of  this  protest 
Watiei  sent  in  letters  to  the   Lord  Keeper  and  the  Speaker  of  the   Lower 
House,  by  two  of  his  gentlemen,  and  a  public  notary  to  attest  the  delivery ; 
but  no  notice   was  taken  of  the  declaration."     C^ee  Smollett's  Continuation 
of  Hume,  p.  401 ;     And  why  was  no  notice  taken  of  this  declaration  ?  Be- 
cause both  Houses  of  Parliament  were  at  that  time  composed  of  Protestants 
only.     But  should   Roman   Catholics  be  admitted  into  both  Houses  of  Par- 
liament, anil  should  the  King  of  Sardinia  (the   linoal   heir)   assert  his  riglit 
to  the  Crown,  would   not  this  right   be  enforced  by  all  the  Roman  Catholic 
piembers  upon  the  principle  of  justice  i 


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on  this  subject.  If  we  look  into  the  natural  worlds 
we  find  that  a  violent  storm  is  frequently  preceded 
by  a  dead  calm.  If  we  consider  the  circumstances 
attending  a  sea  fight,  we  see  that  previous  to  the 
commencementof  the  action  themost  awful  silence 
obtains.  And  may  we  not  upon  the  same  principle 
explain  the  cause,  why  the  loudest  advocates  for 
Roman  Catholic  Emancipation  are  hushed  into  a 
sudden  and  mysterious  silence  ?  Mav  we  not  con* 
elude  that  they  are  only  waiting  for  a  convenient 
opportunity  to  strike  the  deadly  blow?  We  must 
however  leave  the  result  in  the  hands  of  the  great 
Disposer  of  all  events.  But  should  the  Protestant 
Churches  of  England  and  Ireland  eventually  sufl'er 
persecution  through  the  ascendancy, which  will  be 
acquired  by  the  Uonian  Catholics,  in  the  event  of 
Emancipation  being  granted  to  tliem,  we  shall  have 
the  satisfaction  of  recoUectiiig,  that  we  have  availed 
ourselves  of  the  privilege,  which  the  Constitution 
allows  us,  of  petitioning  to  avert  that  persecution. 


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Vide  p.  10. — Are  those  Prr testants,  who  advocate  the  cause  of  Roman 
Catholic  Emancipation,  aware,  that  shouhl  it  be  granted,  the  host  will  he 
carried  in  procession  throujiU  tJie  streets,  and  ihcy  and  all  who  uieei  ii,  will 
be  required  to  tail  down  and  worship  it  i 


FINIS. 


CKOYDOiN,    PKIMEK,    6.C.    TEiGiNMOLTH. 


